To:I. E. GUKOVSKY

Written:Written in the first half of July 1918Published:First published in 1945 inLenin Miscellany XXXV.

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      Progress Publishers,1975,

      Moscow,Volume 44,

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Thereare complaints that you have still not given the
text for the new money, thus making it difficult to prepare
the models and test them. Give it immediately, retaining
the old text about being exchangeable for gold (the
exchange will be suspended by separate decrees).

MakeaSovietinscription.

1)Giveavailable models to the best experts.

2)Ordercounterfeit.

3)Orderdesigns (of all denominations) from the Board
of the People’s Commissariat for Education.

4)HavePopovitsky draw up an estimate:

(a)how many such bank-notes can be produced in one
month with the usual, i.e., the normal, assortment of
denominations

(a1) on the Orlov machines,

(a2) on the ordinary flat-bed machines,

(a3) high denomination notes (i.e., notes of high value)
on Orlov machines, low denomination notes on
ordinary flat-bed machines?

(b)what is the value of the new bank-notes compared
with the old?

(c)when precisely will it be possible to make the cliches
(that is, how many days after the design is endorsed)
and how long before beginning to produce the new
banknotes?

(d)will the new method require new materials and
auxiliary substances, etc., as compared with the old?

Whatwill be the cost of forms (for all official papers
of Soviet authorities)?